The newspapers for Monday, September 11, report on the fallout between a former vice president, Atiku Abubakar and the Buhari administration among other issues.
Mallam Mohammed Lawal, a former deputy director of the Buhari presidential campaign council has accused former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, of plotting against the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
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The Nation reports that Lawal made the accusation on Sunday, September 10, in reaction to Atiku’s claim that he had been sidelined by the current administration.
The Nation newspaper for Monday, September 11, photo credit: snapshot from ZENITHBLOG.com
Lawal, a director on the board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation( NNPC), said Atiku remained bitter for losing the presidential ticket to Buhari.
He said: “We know that right from the time Buhari was sworn in, he started plotting to cause problem, to ensure that this administration does not succeed.
“During the campaign, he granted an interview to BBC and said he was sure APC would not win the presidential election.
“Immediately after the presidential primaries, Atiku left the country. He did not come back. All along, while we were prosecuting the presidential campaign, Atiku was not in Nigeria. He did not participate in the presidential campaign.
“After the presidential election, he came to congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari and left the country. He is complaining now that he was not contacted.”
“He told the BBC in 2015 that he was sure that Buhari was not going to win. So, will somebody who did not believe in the party’s candidate spend anything?”
Meanwhile, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has claimed that five people were killed and about 30 others injured in a military offensive at the Umuahia country home of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, on Sunday, September 10.
Vanguard reports that the IPOB media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, said men dressed in army and police uniforms drove into the palace of the traditional ruler of Afaraukwu, who is the father of Nnamdi Kanu and started shooting people.
Vanguard newspaper for Monday, September 11, photo credit: snapshot from ZENITHBLOG.com
He said in a statement: “We did not clash with anybody or group. The attackers wore Nigerian soldiers and Nigeria Police uniforms and came to kill our leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in his compound at Afaraukwu, Umuahia and started shooting sporadically and killed five people and up to 30 other people had bullet wounds. After attacking our people, they drove off. They came in five Hilux vans.”
In other news, there appears to be no immediate solution in sight to the clashes between herdsmen and farmers as the federal government, at the weekend, said permanent solutions to the conflict required a lot of planning and funds, which was lacking at the moment.
According to the Sun, the minister of agriculture and rural development, Audu Ogbeh, speaking in Abuja, said the government was however putting in place measures to address the conflict.
The Sun newspaper for Monday, September 11, photo credit: snapshot from ZENITHBLOG.com
Ogbeh said: “I can’t give you a date when the conflicts will end but I can give you a date when the conference will end. I can give you a date and I will, when implementation begins. And we will start as soon as possible.
“To solve this problem requires a great deal of planning and expenditure. You can’t think that after one meeting, then recommendations come, you want to solve the problem; you don’t have all the funds at once, because this is a problem that has been with us for quite a while, it’s just growing and getting worse.
“The budget we have can’t cope, the state governors must be involved. Other stakeholders who want to keep ranches, cattle must be here. If we don’t have the money, we ask the FAO, the World Bank or AfDB because that is their job- to help us out. Then, we draw our design, do a costing and pass it on to them.”
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Meanwhile, statistics have shown that the federal government under the Buhari administration and the 36 states of the federation as well as the federal capital territory have borrowed N7.51tn in the last two years.
The Punch newspaper for Monday, September 11, photo credit: snapshot from ZENITHBLOG.com
The Punch, reporting on the increase in Nigeria’s debt profile stated that at the inception of the current administration in June 30, 2015, Nigeria’s total debt stood at N12.12tn.
However, the latest debt statistics obtained from the Debt Management (DMO) Office showed that as of June 2017, the nation’s total debt had climbed to N19.63tn.
In business news, This Day reports that the federal government and three oil companies have completed the technical and commercial evaluation of bids for the main packages in the development of the $13.5 billion Zabazaba deepwater oil field in Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL) 245 within 14 months.
This Day newspaper for Monday, September 11, photo credit: snapshot from ZENITHBLOG.com
The newspaper reports that the oil companies involved in the bid are Nigerian Agip Exploration Limited (NAE) and Shell Petroleum Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo).
Shell and Agip acquired OPL 245, which was named the Zabazaba field, from Malabu Oil and Gas in 2012 for $1.3 billion.
In the ZENITHBLOG.com TV video below, some Nigerians speak on the Biafra Security Service (BSS) inaugurated by IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
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